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Who Is Weak In The Novel 1984

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Newspeak was the official language of Oceania. The government in 1984 created Newspeak to eliminate words that the government thought was unnecessary, such as the word “bad.” The government used Newspeak to their advantage by easily corrupting the thoughts of the people in Oceania, even though they already completely control them. By reducing words and eliminating Oldspeak they can eventually dumb their society down, making it impossible for the people to think on their own. The government is weakening the independence of the people’s individual minds and forcing them to live in constant fear, so they are forced to accept anything the Party tells them to. The government also employs the people to help create Newspeak, so that the people employed at the Ministry of Truth believe they are helping the people not corrupting them. In the novel 1984, Syme worked in the Research Department in at the Ministry of Truth and he was one of the experts working on the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary. Syme is brainwashed by Big Brother and believes what he is doing is morally correct, in the novel he said that “It’s …show more content…

The Party uses slogans such as, “War is Peace” “Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength” to manipulate the opinions of the masses and to continue their power to control the people. The slogan “War is Peace” ensures that the people believe that constant war is being waged as a way of maintaining peace, without war, the Party’s control would be threatened. “Freedom is Slavery” slogan makes the people think they are free individuals, but in reality their minds and actions are being controlled by the government like slaves. The slogan “Ignorance is Strength” is used to show how the Party member’s ignorance and unknowing could be what makes the Party so strong, if they did know they would

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Newspeak is slowly creeping its way into the public, and will soon extinguish any word that could transform into a thoughtcrime. Newspeak is quite simple in the scheme of things, its goals are to obliterate any sort of negative thoughts towards the government. “ Newspeak is engineered to remove even the possibility of rebellious thoughts—the words by which such thoughts might be articulated have been eliminated from the language. Newspeak contains no negative terms.” ( sparknotes).

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The Party and their Actions In the book 1984, the government, also known as the Party strictly governs over the population. The Party has several different methods of controlling the population, such as using the concept of war to manipulate citizens, controlling the proles and keeping them out of positions of power, and directly putting laws that restrict people from performing certain actions. This keeps them in power and gives them the power to govern more freely. War is a method being used by the party to maintain power and, they achieve this by keeping people in the mood of war.

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The whole aim of Newspeak [was] To narrow the range of thought”( Orwell 55) Big Brother or the party thought if the range of thought was slimmed down. Newspeak was the tactic to complete his goal. He slowly was erasing and replacing English. To distract the

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It is obvious that the government is the biggest thing in the book “1984” and how much the government controls the population is astounding. Although there are many obvious ways that Big Brother controls the population, “Newspeak” is probably one of the worst, if not the worst and most intense control mechanism. With “Newspeak” not only is what people say controlled, but it is also restricted, it is made so that the language used is modified and people cannot say certain things even if they wanted to. “Newspeak” is a way in which the government in Oceania controls what the people say and believe. Big brother is the ruler of Oceania, and while it might not directly be said that he is a dictator, it is very much obvious that everything that

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The Party's judicial system is a tool of oppression, bypassing any resemblance of fair trial or local justice. The Thought Police and the Ministry of Love enforce the Party's will, sidelining any independent judicial authority. In 1984, elections were an absurd idea considering the Party maintained power regardless of any nominal electoral process, which reflects fears of a democracy, but they chose to have no choices for the citizens, with no accountability. George Mason wrote Objections to the

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Ignorance is strength.” The citizens of Oceania cannot rebel against something they cannot even define, or try to replace their government with another one that their language cannot define. Even if they decided that they hated how they are being controlled, the people of Oceania are unable to act because they would be committing a crime by doing so. But in our world today, just the opposite is true. We are encouraged to speak our mind, to express who we are, what we want, and what changes we think are necessary.

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Their only resource is Big Brother propaganda, leaving them in a state where it is unlikely to rebel. Lastly, the ability to act on one’s own free will is taken away from the mass majority. As surveillance and technology advance against the party members and

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“The punishment for any sort of rebellion is met with physical and mental torture” (Themes, Motifs, and Symbols in 1984). This is how the Party keeps absolute power, by making sure no one rebels against them. The Party even goes as far as to use symbolism for further control. For instance, Big Brother is the head of the totalitarian government and also serves to represent control via propaganda and surveillance. “The concept behind Big Brother represents more than just the leader of Oceania, but rather the dictatorial presence over the nation” (Themes, Motifs, and Symbols in

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Indoctrination is represented in 1984 through the concepts of ‘Newspeak’ and ‘Doublethink’ which aim to limit language and thought, to prevent scepticism of the regime and thereby teaching the masses to accept their present life uncritically. In Chapter 5 Syme an employee in the Ministry of Truth explains the true political nature of Newspeak before he was vapourised for ‘thoughtcrime’, the quote is as follows; “… the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” INGSOC (Newspeak for the totalitarian regime) through the use of propaganda such as ‘Newspeak’, a limited, expressionless and difficult to understand language with the purpose of limiting a person’s ability to think indoctrinates Oceania by eliminating political and ideological individuality which is reflective of Orwell’s views of totalitrainsim. As a consequence characters such as Winston Smith are unable to think critically due to the restriction and education placed upon them by the Government.

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By limiting the vocabulary, Newspeak is essentially “unintelligible” and hence controls the people’s understanding of the real world. Orwell emphasises that language is of utmost importance as it structures and limits the ideas individuals are capable of formulating and expressing. In 1984, language is used as a ‘mind control tool’. The party slogan, “war is peace, freedom is

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Winston Smith is the protagonist of Orwell’s dystopian novel and represents a non-activist oppressed citizen of Oceania who is unable to conform with the government’s inequitable principles. While in a dialogue with his coworker Syme, he expresses his disdain for the brainwashing Newspeak dictionary “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? […] In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now.

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